The last date to accept WhatsApp’s new policy is February 8, 2021.
WhatsApp updated its terms and privacy policy recently, sparking a huge row among users and launching a mass exodus from the platform. The sudden irritant was WhatsApp’s guidance that the users should be willing to share their data with Facebook. Does that mean FB is reading your messages? Well, the update does not impact how people communicate privately with friends or family. WhatsApp is not reading private messages. The privacy policy update clarifies how WhatsApp has been collecting user metadata for their own functionality, and the operational update of the App is towards how users communicate with businesses, according to Indian tech policy think tank founder Kazim Rizvi. Here are a few points on why accepting the new WhatsApp policy is not a threat to privacy. Yes – as has always been the case.
